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SPBCIFICATON forming part oi' Letters Patent No. 381930, dated leugnet14,-, 1888.

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Be it known that Il, Jeun STORY, a subject of the Queen ot' GreatBritain, residing at the town of Godcrich, in the county of Huron andProvince of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and usefulCarpelrStretcher, (for which no patent has yet been obtained or appliedfor in any country,) of which the following is a speci` fication.

My invention relates to the combination of two wooden bars, one of themhaving at one end the carpet-stretcher pointe7 similar to thoseordi'naril y in use, and at the other end a red need part with a slotinit, in which it is in tended that a curved toothed or ratchet bar Shallwork, and the other bar having at one end a slender metal prong orneedle and at the other end a part with a slot in it, as in the lirstbar. The two bars are connected together at the joints by a pin forminga male and l'emale joint, so that the machine maybe extended orclosed,and so that the prong bei nginserted in a door or other surfaceand held in a slant ing position,the stretcher-points maybe moved easilybackward or forward by raising or depressing the center, where the twobars are joined together. fit-li the above is also coinbined a curvedtoothed or ratchet bar oonnected by a pin with. the inside ol' the slotbelow the joint in the pronged bar and working easily up and down in theopposite slot, so that when it is allowed to drop against the base ofthe lastnamed slot, suoli base being beveled so as to form an edge orangle on the inside, any ot' the teeth in the toothed or ratchet barwill leek with the beveled edge or' the Slot and prevent the center ofthe machine from being raised,and when being used for Carpetstretehingwill hold it rigid in any position desired.

The accompanying drawings show the mechanism of the invention. Figure lis a drawing of the carpetstreteher partially extended. Fig. 2 is adrawing of the same closed. Fig. 3 is a plan of the carpetstretcher barof the machine with male joint and slot beveled at the hase on the upperend of the bar. Fig. 4 is the pronged bar with joint and slot at theupper end. Fig. 5 is a drawing of the curved toothed or ratchet bar.

In the drawings similar letters refer to si milar parts throughout theseveral views.

A is the bar, having carpet stretcher points ,E at the lower end and thereduced part at upper end with slot n," in it, the base of which Slot isbeveled from g to l1..

C is the pronged bar having the prong or needle D at the lower end and apart with a slot, @,at the npperend. Vhen theee two bars are to beunited, the slotted end a ofthe one lits into and between the slot-tedendf of the other, and then those two liars are connected by a pin at ain anch manner that the prong D and Stretcher-points 1? will work easilybackward and forward from the center, and so that the machine may beextended, as in Fig. l, or closed, as in Fig. 2, ol the drawings.

E is the curved toothed or ratehetbar connected with inside ofthe Slotatf by a pin, so that it will work easily up and down inside theopposite slot from a to y, and so that it may be allowed to V'all uponthe beveled edge of the base ol' the slet at y, and any of the teethwill lock with such edge and prevent the center of the inaehine frombeing raised.

In working the machine in the operation of laying carpeta the metalprong or needle D is panaed th ron gli the carpet and into the licor erother surface in a slanting position, the metal carpet-stretcher pointsbeing then applied to the carpet in the usual way, andthe center ofthemachine being depressed, the points are pushed forward, drawing thecarpet with them as far as the length ol' the prong l) will allow, thelatter being snlliciently small to allow the carpet to move np on itwithout injury. The tooth-bar is then lowered so that one of the teethwill lock with the beveled edge ol the base ol' the Slot at f/ and willhold the machine rigid until the carpet can be tacked or otherwisesecured by the operator.

l am aware that prior to my invention carpet-stretehers andcarpet-stretcher points have been in use.

I claim-m 1. The hereindescribed carpet-stretcher, composed ol the twobars A and G, the one having the slotted end eand the other a slottedend, c, Se that their ends forni a male and l'emalejoint, the onepartfitting into the other and. the two pivoted together by a pin, and thecurved ratchet-bar E, pi voted in the Slot f, substantially as shown anddescribed.

2. A cnrpetetretcher composed of two meni- IOO bers, A and C, the firsthaving at its lower end pin, and the ratchet-bar E, pivoted in one ofthe stretcherpoint B and at its upper the the slotted joints andengaging in the beveled 1o slotted part a', the latter having theneedleedge of the opposite slotted joint7 all substanpoint D at itslower end and the slotted part tially as and for the purposes set forth.

e at the other, the two slotted parts forming JOHN STORY.

a male and female joint, the said male and fe- I male joint fitting theone part upon and over the other and the two hinged. together by aW'itnesses:

EDWIN ERNEST SEAGER, ROBERT CRooKETT.

